Maps of the Peace Corps

"Maps of the Peace Corps" is a showcase of maps made by Peace Corps Volunteers from five decades of volunteer service around the world.

Two of the hand drawn maps from the collection:



Location: Quimbaya, Colombia
Volunteer: Larry Larrichio
Decade: 1960s



Location: Koyena, Mali
Volunteer: Judy Mead
Decade: 1990s

Colombian Joe

Let a map of Colombia help you wake up this morning:


Colombia beautiful land by getuchito
For the Worth1000 Nationalism 7 contest.

More about coffee, and other exports from Colombia.


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Meet the World

This blog is about maps, not flags... but since I have digressed in that direction in the past, I will share this clever work.

The flags campaign, "Meet the World", is the work of Icaro Doria, a Brazilian working for the "hard journalism" magazine, Grande Reportagem, in Lisbon, Portugal. Two examples:





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Icaro Doria said:

This is how we thought of the concept Meet the World.

We started to research relevant, global, and current facts and, thus, came up with the idea to put new meanings to the colours of the flags. We used real data taken from the websites of Amnesty International and the UNO.